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Text: | Brief life is here our portion |
Author: | Bernard of Cluny |
Translator: | John M. Neale |
Tune: | ST. GEORGE'S, BOLTON |
Composer: | James Walch |
1 Brief life is here our portion;
Brief sorrow, short-lived care;
The life that knows no ending,
The tearless life, is there;
Oh, happy retribution!
Short toil, eternal rest;
For mortals, and for sinners,
A mansion with the blest!
2 There grief is turned to pleasure,--
Such pleasure as below
No human voice can utter,
No human heart can know;
And after fleshly weakness,
And after this world's night,
And after storm and whirlwind,
Are calm and joy and light.
3 For thee, O dear, dear country!
Mine eyes their vigils keep;
For very love, beholding
Thy happy name they weep:
The mention of thy glory
Is unction to the breast,
And medicine in sickness,
And love, and life, and rest.
Amen.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Brief life is here our portion |
Translator: | John M. Neale (1852) |
Author: | Bernard of Cluny (12th c.) |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1899 |
Topic: | Brevity of Life; Christians: Triumph of; Immortality |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | ST. GEORGE'S, BOLTON |
Composer: | James Walch |
Meter: | 7s, 6s D. |